{"product_id":"yansson-tove-author-and-illustrator-kingsley-hart-translator-who-will-comfort-toffle","title":"JANSSON. Tove ( author and illustrator ); Kingsley HART ( translator ). Who Will Comfort Toffle?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJANSSON. Tove (\u003ci\u003eauthor and illustrator\u003ci\u003e); Kingsley HART (\u003ci\u003etranslator\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Who Will Comfort Toffle? \u003ci\u003eLondon: Ernest Benn\u003c\/i\u003e. 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth with white illustration and lettering to upper board, illustrated dust-jacket; ff. [14]; jacket price-clipped, wear with a closed tear to spine (c. 25mm) and front flap (c. 40mm), four small holes to jacket spine, spine a little bumped but cloth remains bright; lacking the blank single sheet showing Toffle in the top right-hand corner that was loosely inserted into volumes at the time of publication, Christmas label, previous owner’s purple stamp and bookseller’s label all to front free endpaper, a little spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, but the illustrations remain clean and bright; very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first impression of Jansson’s touching children’s story that follows Toffle’s search for companionship.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTowards the end of the 1950s, Jansson was becoming restless with being labelled solely as a children’s writer, and longed to be recognised as a painter, her first and primary passion. In the summer of 1959, however, she once again felt the pull to write another story. Her work had taken a slightly darker tone after the publication of \u003ci\u003eMoominland in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), and \u003ci\u003eWho Will Comfort Toffle?\u003c\/i\u003e continues in a similar vein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the story, Toffle feels isolated; he walks past a Hemulen party, but feels as though he cannot go in, which only deepens his loneliness. Eventually, he must set aside his own troubles when a message in a bottle washes up to shore from Miffle, asking for someone to comfort her. Toffle then sets out on a journey to rescue her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is among one of Jansson’s best-loved works in the Nordics, and it has never been out of print since its first publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee, Westin, Tove Jansson: life, art, words (2024)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124954\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57122266087801,"sku":"2124954","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124954.jpg?v=1776858426","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/yansson-tove-author-and-illustrator-kingsley-hart-translator-who-will-comfort-toffle","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}